Array editing or Validate JSON string?

[prothero at earthlearningsolutions.org]

Jacqueline,
Thanks. Makes sense. I’ll do that.
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Nov 18, 2018, at 11:40 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> When I needed to check JSON validation, I put the JSONToArray function inside a "try" structure. The catch clause will trigger and tell you there's an error. It isn't too much different than what the editor does but It can give you a clue.
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On November 18, 2018 12:32:27 PM prothero--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Bob,
>> Tnx for the info. However, isn’t it reasonable that the LC conversion should respond with some indication that it can’t do the JSON to array conversion, rather than throw a script error?
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> William Prothero
>> http://es.earthednet.org
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>>> On Nov 18, 2018, at 6:18 AM, bob--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Livecode provides a text editor to, well, edit text. It does not understand the syntax/grammar of languages (Livecode, HTML, Javascript, JSON, YML, etc). What you need is an editor that “knows" JSON.
>>> 
>>> Your best bet is to copy the text into Sublime, Visual Studio Code or Atom which do understand JSON’s syntax/grammar. There may be some configuration to the tool you will need to do but you will get indications from these editors when you have malformed JSON.
>>> 
>>> - Bob Hall
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 17, 2018, at 6:39 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> What I would like to do is get a dialog that the JSON wasn’t formed correctly. Of course, since I’m using it for my personal development of my app, I can know that it failed if I don’t get the answer dialog I put in after it. but, it seems a kludge. Shouldn’t there be some kind of an error result if the JSON is ill-formed?
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